The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-07-07
FROM MURPHY TO MANTEO.
som f. THINGS THAT AREHAppEN-
IN<: IN NORTH CAROLINA.

What Has Happened in the Good Ola
State Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
Its Readers.
POSTAL CARD News. S.-The friends of the
CHRONICLE in every section of the State
are requested to aid us in making this de-
partment an accurate record in brief, of
the news from Murphy to Manteo Send
Us postal card whenever anything of
Pupllc interest transpircs in your neigh
oorhood or section of country. You will
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ton. Send on the postal cards EDITOR.
... Forest City, Fremont, Sanford and
Silva, N. c., have been made money order
postoflices.
49,. "A State Convention of Tobacconists
has been called to meet at Morehead CITY,
on the 7th of August
49,. The Fayetteville News saws that the
G. F. Il Y. V. r. r., will be completed to
Dalton by the latter part of August.
-. On July end two women were shot
near Whiteyille. Suspicion rests upon the
husband of one, and upon Il woman of
bad repute.
The Durham Recorder says that
Durham is to have an ice factory which
can manufacture ice and sell it at twenty
five cents per hundred pounds.
... We see from the Greensboro North
State that Mr.. Harper J. Elan, of Greens
boro, will publish a pamphlet sketch of
the battle of Guilford Court House.
.... The Concord Times will appear this
week in a new dress of type. We are always
pleased to note the progress of an honest,
out-spoken newspaper like the Times.
The Wilmington steam fire engine
company presented its President Mr.. I.
ID. Meares, handsome ice pitcher July
4th. SO says the Messenger and the Star.
The Carthage Blade says that the
work of laying the track on the Carthage
Railroad Will commence at an early day.
The cross ties have been placed along the
line
80. Messrs. j. NJ. Norwood and p. J..
Thomas, Two young men of nine years
perience, have formed a company for the
manufacture of cigars. Durham Recor
der.
go. The trustees and faculty of the
Friends school at New Garden, will hold
a semi-centennial celebration Of the found
ing and opening of that institution on the
18th of August, 1887.
Mr.. c. E. Graham yesterday at 1o
o'clock started to work 10 looms in his
cotton factory, located at present in the
Girdwood foundry at the old depot, turn
ing out a fine quality Of plaids. Ashville
Citizen.
-. Mr.. f. S. Kelly killed, on the farm
of Senator Mclver one and one half miles
west of Sanford on last Saturday, a blue
heron of unusual size for this section.
The bird measured feet ? inches in
height and feet inches from tip to tip
of his wings. Sanford Express.
-. Mr.. J. W. Scott, of Greensboro, is
<,ff ho Eui
Company, and has his books open for
subscription. 1t is proposed to make the
ground place of greater interest by erect
ing a suitable monument and otherwise
improving the grounds.
One of the interesting features of
Rutherford College commencement last
week was the fact that young lady, Miss
Alice S. Deal, of Caldwell county, a mem
Der of the class in theology, preached
what the Lenoir Topic calls IAN excellent
sermon in the church Sunday night.
" The CHRONICLE is glad to know that
John Manning's Summer Law School at
the University has opened with a large
attendance. Among those reading law
under this distinguished instructor we
note Prof. E. f. Hilliard, Principal Of
Vine Hill Academy, Scotland Neck. Mr..
IIilliard has a legal mind-and it is well
furnished.
-. Mr. J. Eller writes:-Thc prospect
for Ashe is very good. Grass, oats, corn
| and vegetables are fine. Wheat good,
where there is stand large portion of
the wheat crop was plowed up and sown
| in oats. There have been several capi-
talists in the county wanting to buy
Iron Ore some of which has been sold to
a Virginia company. Several Bromide
Arsenic Springs have been discovered in
this county recently.
-. The factories on Deep River, in
Randolph county, furnish employment
| and good wages to many hundreds of
hands, and these have not felt the hard
times With regular work, good wages,
good houses with good gardens attached,
they seem to have plenty and are happy.
There are three factories at Randleman,
which turn out daily not less than thirty
or forty thousand yards of plaids.-l Dan
Valley Echo.
A special feature and one that will
no doubt be quite instructive to our stock
raisers who visit the Institute and Fair at
Mt Holly ten miles west of Charlotte, on
the Catawba river, August 10th to 18th
will be the lecture on Diseases of Domes-
ticated Animals and the necessity for hu-
name treatment" delivered by DR.. J. N.
Cook, Veterinary Surgeon of Atlanta, Ga
Col. W. H. S. Burgwyn of Henderson,
Vance county, will deliver lecture on
Golden Leaf Tobacco-what it has done
for North Carolina" Maj. S. NJ. Finger
will speak on "The Value of Education to
Farmers" s."-[Ex.
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